Show All TALKS Of BRAND BRANDON ON TRIBUNE Scurrilous Lying Slanderous Backbiting Sheet 1 Impossible S of Belief Says the Department of Jus Justice tice S S I S From Prom a Staff Correspondent I Washington May 11 Considerable interest and comment comment com corn ment has been aroused in Washington over ovar th hot shots given the Salt Lai Lace e Tribune by t the e Department of Justice thc a 1 n. n attorney orneY general and bY tt r 0 H TT n 1 4 r r rI I It f is probably the first time on record an America i newspaper has be bee l lof officially pronounced a scurrilous lying lying- slanderous backbiting backbiting- sheet impossible of belief and that such official statement nt carried the O 0 K of a nIem member ber of the cabinet of the Pres President dent of the United States Various charges have ha been cn made mad fo from time to time b by newspapers In lii various parts rt of or tho time countr country against public officials In many cases these charges have havo been probed under tho the direction of or tho the cabinet ca officer In whose those department department depart depart- ment meat the accused officer was located The Tho ISE Issue ue has been In some cases lases that time the charges charge have ha been substantiated and tho time offender punIsh punished rd In other othel cases It has happened that the charges were found to bo ho untrue In that case caso the tho newspaper was wal notified that Its lt charges were found to be without foundation and the matter was dropped In this case cast the circumstances s were vero such that the assistant attorney Ien oral eral ral who probed the tho charges found them so baseless and his experiences with the tho Salt Lake Tribune were such that he hue was Impelled to add to his re report report report re- re I port tho the fact that the tho Tribune Is a scurrilous lying Iving slanderous landorous backbiting backbiting back back- biting sheet Impossible of belief Ho I added to It that tho the Tribune was WI generally gen en- en orally recognized a as such In Salt Lake Lako and Utah and that Ulo attention was paid to Its fulminations For POl that rear rea son the report ha has luisi attra attracted tod a great deal cleat of attention In Washington es especially es- es from the fact tact that Attorney General after a careful reading of the report placed his O 0 K upon It with the official seal of the de de- de Charges Charge Colonel This report upon tho the grew grow out of or the charges made b by that paper papera a against t Colonel II H. l 13 E. Booth United States a attorney for Utah In connection with tho settlement of ot the tho Utah Fuel company cases Colonel Booth in con- con J I nee lion with Ired Fred A. A a J t- t lint to the time attorney general of ot time the United States hail had prepared the cases CUBes against the time coal company compall The They made certain recommendations to tho department department depart depart- ment of or Justice Attorney General Genera Wickersham after atter a n careful Investigation In tion decided that following tho the recommendations I of or tho time Utah attorneys would b be to th tiA best Interests of ot the government go Ho lIo promptly issued In Instructions Instructions In- In that tho ho two Utah men should handle handlo the cases along the tho lines that they Indicated Tho rho result was that the thc cases were settled in lii the time manner that would be bo most moat advantageous to the government and by the special order of tho time attorney attorney ney general TIme The TrIbune took occasion occasion occa occa- sion to find fault with the matter and to make personal charges against Colonel Booth practically accusing him hImor him of or a n. monetary Interest In the tho matter malter Attorney General ordered or or- derod dered an assistant to make mako an gation This Investigation In was made b by a n special assistant to tho the attorney general The rite assistant m made a ti l painstaking painstaking pains pains- taking Investigation In and made a report to the time attorney general that th time tho charges wore baseless that they thoy had been made mado before b by tho the Tribune and added to his report that the time Tribune Is a n scurrilous lying slanderous biting back sheet Impossible to toe be e be believed be- be that the people of or Salt Lake L' and Utah so regard ard It It and that little attention Is paid to It In tho the territory where whore It circulates Attorney General Approver OI It Attorney General read time the report placed hl his O 0 K upon it It and forwarded It to the Interior de department department do- do to which department time the charges charses had boon been sent b by the tho Tribune It Is now a n. part of the record of that dep department department- t. t Washington Is talking a great treat deal about time the matter as this IK is beU believed to be bo time the first time In tho the history of the government go that a newspaper has been so branded officially b by a member of ot tho time cabinet of or tho the President of ot the United States I |